Mohammad Farid Hamidi

Guest Author

Mohammad Farid Hamidi (LinkedIn – X – Substack) served as Attorney General of Afghanistan from 2016 to 2021, leading a national prosecution service of approximately 6,000 people. During his tenure, he increased women’s representation among prosecutors from under three percent to twenty-three percent, instituted weekly public access sessions that earned him the title “the people’s prosecutor,” and led major anti-corruption and justice reform initiatives. He resigned in March 2021. Five months later, he watched Kabul fall from his living room in Boston.

Since 2021, Hamidi has continued working on Afghan justice and human rights issues through the Prosecutors for Prosecutors campaign, which he co-founded with the U.S. Association of Prosecuting Attorneys to relocate Afghan prosecutors currently in hiding, and through his role as Board Member and Senior Consultant at the Afghan Human Rights Center. He holds a Master in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School. He is based in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Articles by this author:

Naija Raufi in a dark dress and a floral hijab stands at a balcony railing, overlooking the low- to medium-rise urban landscape of Athens, her back to the camera, alongside a young girl in a pink dress and pony tails in her dark hair.

I Was Afghanistan’s Attorney General. Here Is What Justice Looked Like — and What Destroyed It.

May 27, 2026 Mohammad Farid Hamidi